2 get life sentence in rape and murder

Two men convicted of raping a teenage girl and killing her boyfriend nearly three decades ago have been handed life prison sentences.

Ivory Loyd and William Atkins were tried simultaneously, each with his own jury, for the January 4, 1981, murder of Elvio Mercuri and rape of his 18-year-old girlfriend. Authorities alleged Loyd and Atkins carjacked the couple outside the girlfriend's Chicago home.

Moments after his jury convicted him in September, Loyd, using profanity, accused Judge Bertina Lampkin and prosecutors of framing him.

The men were charged in 2003 after DNA evidence was matched to Loyd and fingerprints taken from the scene were linked to Atkins.

The rape victim, now in her 40s, testified at the trial. Mercuri's cousin Emma told Lampkin on Wednesday that Loyd and Atkins deprived the crane operator of a chance to have his own family.